Further reading

Sources included in report

Protocol Development for the Standardization of Identification and Examination of UBC Bodies Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Best Practices Manual Binational Migration Institute University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (2014)
https://bmi.arizona.edu/sites/bmi.arizona.edu/files/protocol.pdf

“Symposium on Border Crossing Deaths: Introduction” by Bruce Anderson and Bruce Parks (2008).

Immigrants in New Mexico, American Immigration Council (2020)
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrants-in-new-mexico

CBP-Related Deaths, Office of Professional Responsibility (2021)
https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2023-Feb/2021-opr-cbp-related-deaths-report.pdf

The Disappeared Report Part IV: Left to Die, No More Deaths Abuse Documentation (2023)
http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/uploads/8/3/5/1/83515082/left_to_die_-_english.pdf

The Disappeared Report, No More Deaths Abuse Documentation (2023)
http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/

‘Mass disaster’ grows at the U.S.-Mexico border, but Washington doesn’t seem to care, AZCentral (2017)
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2017/12/14/investigation-border-patrol-undercounts-deaths-border-crossing-migrants/933689001/

Border Patrol failed to count hundreds of migrant deaths on US soil, CNN Investigates (2018)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/us/border-patrol-migrant-death-count-invs/index.html

THE BORDER PATROL IS SYSTEMICALLY FAILING TO COUNT MIGRANT DEATHS, The Intercept (2022)
https://theintercept.com/2022/05/09/border-patrol-migrant-deaths-gao/

MIGRANT DEATHS IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA: RECOVERED UNDOCUMENTED BORDER CROSSER REMAINS INVESTIGATED BY THE PIMA COUNTY OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, 1990 – 2020, Binational Migration Institute (2021)
https://bmi.arizona.edu/sites/bmi.arizona.edu/files/BMI-Migrant-Deaths-in-Southern-Arizona-2021-English.pdf

CBP Should Improve Data Collection, Reporting, and Evaluation for the Missing Migrant Program, United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees (2022)
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-105053.pdf

Department of Homeland Security U.S. Customs and Border Protection Notification and Review Procedures for Certain Deaths and Deaths in Custody, CBP (2021)
https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2021-Sep/2021_notification-review-procedures-for-certain-deaths-and-deaths-in-custody%20%283%29.pdf

CBP Deaths FOIA, R. Andrew Free
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13KN2D5FIjIKJdgqFf5QrbiMkXssmJlm0SCsKev_gxSg/edit#gid=1978128881

Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2021 – Statistical Tables, Bureau of Justice Statistics (2023)
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/federal-deaths-custody-and-during-arrest-2021-statistical-tables

Mapping the Border Wall in Arizona and New Mexico, Wildlands Network, (2021)
https://wildlandsnetwork.org/resources/mapping-the-border-wall-in-arizona-and-new-mexico

A Taller Border Wall Brings a Surge of Costly Injuries to El Paso, Aaron Nelsen, Texas Monthly (2023)
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/taller-border-wall-falls-injuries/

Una joven hondureña muere al caer del muro de El Paso al intentar entrar en Estados Unidos, Marca (2022)
https://us.marca.com/actualidad/2022/04/17/625c2ef446163f62698b4579.html

Opinion: As a San Diego neurosurgeon, I see the devastating toll of the raised border wall, Alexander Tenorio, LATimes (2023)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-13/draft-tenorio-on-border-wall-injuries

Migrants say they were seriously hurt in fall from border wall, then expelled to Mexico without medical treatment, Angela Kocherga, El Paso Matters (2021)
https://elpasomatters.org/2021/02/14/migrants-say-they-were-seriously-hurt-in-fall-from-border-wall-then-expelled-to-mexico-without-medical-treatment/

Emergency Driving Including Vehicular Pursuits by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Personnel, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION DIRECTIVE (2021)
https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2021-Nov/CBP-directive-emergency-driving-Including-vehicular-pursuits-us-cbp-personnel-redacted.pdf

Chasing Danger: How Border Patrol Chases Have Spun out of Control, LATimes (2019)
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-ln-border-patrol-immigrant-chases-crashes/

‘Hurting people’: The ‘cover-up teams’ operating on the US border, Mark Scialla, Al Jazeera, (2022)
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/12/12/the-cover-up-teams-operating-on-the-us-border

Metering and Asylum Turnbacks, American Immigration Council (2021)
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/metering-and-asylum-turnbacks

Five Things to Know About the Right to Seek Asylum (2022)
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/five-things-to-know-about-the-right-to-seek-asylum

EXPLAINER: Will immigration surge as asylum rule ends?, Rebecca Santana, APNews, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/public-health-immigration-asylum-54c11e091d464fe8d9272d607f6778f8

“We Can’t Help You Here” US Returns of Asylum Seekers to Mexico, Human Rights Watch, (2019)
https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/07/02/we-cant-help-you-here/us-returns-asylum-seekers-mexico

Judge denies bid to prohibit U.S. border officials from turning back asylum-seekers at land crossings, Associated Press (2023)
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2023/10/14/asylum-seekers-at-land-crossings

Court Allows Turnbacks of Asylum Seekers Without CBP One Appointments to Continue, American Immigration Council (2023)
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/court-allows-turnbacks-asylum-seekers-without-cbp-one-appointments-continue

U.S. Government Announces Sweeping New Actions to Manage Regional Migration, US Embassy in Chile (2023)
https://cl.usembassy.gov/u-s-government-announces-sweeping-new-actions-to-manage-regional-migration/

Immigrants And Asylum Seekers Are Not Bargaining Chips: Congress Must Reject Permanent Legislative Changes That Would Eviscerate U.S. Asylum Protections, NIJC Staff, National Immigrant Justice Center (2023)
https://immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/immigrants-and-asylum-seekers-are-not-bargaining-chips-congress-must-reject-permanent

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, Jason De Leon, Michael Wells (2015)
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520282759/the-land-of-open-graves

Border Patrol Strategic Plan: 1994 and Beyond, National Strategy, US Border Patrol, hsdl.org (1994)
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=721845

Animal Scavenging and Scattering and the Implications for Documenting the Deaths of Undocumented Border Crossers in the Sonoran Desert, Jess Beck, Ian Ostericher, Gregory Sollish, and Jason De Leon, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 60, No. S1 (2015)
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/110576/jfo12597.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

El Paso Plan Deters Illegal Immigrants : Border: A federal study finds Operation Hold-the-Line effective. But researchers say it causes staffing and morale problems for agents, James Bornemeier, Los Angeles Times (1994)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-27-mn-20325-story.html

Operation Hold The Line – How El Paso Spawned Today’s Failed Immigration Strategy, Martin Paredes, elpasonews.org (2022)
https://elpasonews.org/2022/02/09/operation-hold-the-line-how-el-paso-spawned-todays-failed-immigration-strategy/

Texas’ Governor Brags About His Border Initiative. The Data Doesn’t Back Him Up, Lomi Kriel and Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón and Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project,
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-brags-about-his-border-initiative-the-data-doesnt-back-him-up

Texas strings concertina wire along New Mexico border to deter migrants, Uriel J. Garcia, (2023)
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/17/texas-border-new-mexico-concertina-wire-abbott/

The Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Border Security, American Immigration Council, (2021)
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/the-cost-of-immigration-enforcement-and-border-security

Extending ‘Zero Tolerance’ To People Who Help Migrants Along The Border, Lorne Matalon, NPR.org (2019)
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/28/725716169/extending-zero-tolerance-to-people-who-help-migrants-along-the-border

‘Outsourcing’ border enforcement: Biden’s migration policies rely on Mexico despite its grim record, Conor Finnegan, ABC News, (2023)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/outsourcing-border-enforcement-bidens-migration-policies-rely-mexico/story?id=99167102

Slack, Jeremy. Deported to Death: How Drug Violence Is Changing Migration on the US–Mexico Border. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dvjp.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dvjp

Separate and Deadly, SEGREGATION OF 911 EMERGENCY SERVICES IN THE ARIZONA BORDERLANDS, No More Deaths (2023)
http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/uploads/8/3/5/1/83515082/separate_and_deadly_english.pdf

CBP Nationwide Encounters
https://www.cbp.gov/document/stats/nationwide-encounters

Chambers, S. N., Boyce, G., & Martínez, D. E. (2022). Climate impact or policy choice? The spatiotemporality of thermoregulation and border crosser mortality in southern Arizona. Geographical Journal.
https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/664199

Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon among 4 indicted in alleged We Build the Wall fraud scheme, Kevin Johnson, Kristine Phillips, David Jackson, El Paso Times (2020)
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2020/08/20/former-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-3-others-indicted-alleged-we-build-wall-fraud/5616481002/

Death toll, waters rise in El Paso border canals with 5 bodies found in 3 days, Daniel Borunda, Aaron Martinez, Aria Jones, El Paso Times (2019)
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2019/06/10/death-toll-waters-rise-drownings-el-paso-border-canals/1412997001/

Border Rescues and Mortality Data, CBP
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/border-rescues-and-mortality-data

Podcast: Death By Policy: Crisis in the Arizona Desert, Julieta Martinelli, Roxanne Scott, Maria Hinojosa, Futuro Investigates, (2022)
https://futuroinvestigates.org/investigative-stories/death-by-policy-crisis-in-the-arizona-desert/podcast/

Three days stranded: How Border Patrol failed to rescue a lost migrant in the desert, Julieta Martinelli, Roxanne Scott, Futuro Investigates (2023)
https://futuroinvestigates.org/investigative-stories/death-by-policy-crisis-in-the-arizona-desert/an-update-to-death-by-policy/

Sunland Park Fire Chief ‘assuming’ passage of SB-4 will result in more migrant encounters, Leloba Seitshiro, KVIA (2023)
https://kvia.com/news/border/2023/11/16/sunland-park-fire-chief-assuming-passage-of-sb-4-will-result-in-more-migrant-encounters/

Migrant deaths mounting in desert west of El Paso, Julian Resendiz, KTSM
https://www.ktsm.com/news/migrant-deaths-mounting-in-desert-west-of-el-paso/

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